Mickey Huff - Censored 2020

PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS CENSORED VOLUMES

Now, more than ever, press freedom is at stake. In opposition to the undemocratic censorship of information, I proudly stand with Project Censored.Sharyl Attkisson, Emmy Awardwinning investigative journalist and host of Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson

Project Censored provides an essential service to democracy. They expose the shortcomings of a free press and media that too often chooses not to use its freedoms because they are in thrall to powerful interests. Project Censored sets the standard for the Fourth Estate, shedding light on important stories that would otherwise remain obscure and allowing citizens to demand justice and solutions.Ted Rall, syndicated cartoonist and columnist

Censorship has become the plutocratic cornerstone of the One Percent, putting our First Amendment on life support. The militaryindustrial complex, think tanks, and those who profit from exploiting we the people have partnered up with the media establishment and social media giants to propagate war and control free thought. In an era when truth and transparency are under assault, Project Censored offers a vitally important guide on how to think critically and provides the proper media literacy tools for everyone to survive this post-truth era.Mnar Muhawesh, editor-in-chief, MintPress News

In a world where press freedoms are under increasing attack and the so-called mainstream press has become a mouthpiece for big corporate interests and the US State Department, the work of Project Censored has become more important than ever. If you want a break from fake news and wish instead to witness real journalism revealing important stories rarely, if ever, covered in the establishment press, read this book!Dan Kovalik, author of The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela and The Plot to Control the World

Media titans and politicians are finding new ways to censor independent journalism on virtually every web platform under the banner of combating fake news and foreign propaganda. For truth-tellers and researchers facing this new assault, Project Censored and its annual book represent a vitally important tool for highlighting the crucial issues to know and struggles to follow, an essential guide for truth in a post-truth society. Abby Martin, The Empire Files

Todays fake news becomes tomorrows fake history. If journalism is the rough draft of history, [Project Censored] goes a long way to getting the record right the first time, stopping fake news in its tracks and ensuring that we have fewer Untold Histories in the future. Peter Kuznick and Oliver Stone, coauthors of The Untold History of the United States book and documentary series

For more than 40 years, Project Censored has been our watchdog on the establishment media, casting its eye on how the information that we receive and dont receiveshapes our democracy. We need it more than ever today! Christopher Finan, executive director, National Coalition Against Censorship

A crucial contribution to the hope for a more just and democratic society. Noam Chomsky

[Project Censored] is a clarion call for truth telling. Daniel Ellsberg, The Pentagon Papers

Project Censored brings to light some of the most important stories of the year that you never saw or heard about. This is your chance to find out what got buried. Diane Ravitch, author of The Death and Life of the Great American School System

Project Censored is a national treasure in American life.... Censored gives new meaning to the notion that critical citizens are at the core of a strong democracy and that informed resistance is not an option but a necessity. Henry A. Giroux, author of American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism

Project Censored rescues the most important stories you should have read but probably never saw from oblivion. Chris Hedges, author of Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

The systematic exposure of censored stories by Project Censored has been an important contribution. Howard Zinn, author of A Peoples History of the United States

Project Censored... has evolved into a deep, wide, and utterly engrossing exercise to unmask censorship, self-censorship, and propaganda in the mass media. Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, lawyer, and author

Project Censored is not just among the bravest, smartest, and most rigorous of [independent news] outlets, but the only one thats wholly focused on those stories that the corporate press ignores, downplays, or distorts. Mark Crispin Miller, author and professor of media ecology, New York University

Forever young, and ever more important, Project Censored makes us all better-informed and more empowered as citizens. Dan Simon, Seven Stories Press

Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism. Walter Cronkite, anchor, CBS Evening News, 19621981

One of the most significant media research projects in the country. I.F. Stone, American muckraker

CENSORED 2020

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS

The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 201819

Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff
with Project Censored

Foreword by
Sharyl Attkisson
Cartoons by
Khalil Bendib

Seven Stories Press

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Copyright 2019 by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff

Foreword copyright 2019 by Sharyl Attkisson

A Seven Stories Press First Edition

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Finding Strength in Community

Gilda L. Ochoa

Thinking of teachers

Regardless of whether they carry that name

Inside our schools and far away from those rooms

Who every day

See our full humanity

Show their own vulnerability

Name the realities of inequality

Unmask erased histories

Deconstruct prevailing ideologies

Build spaces showing another way

Inspiring us to continue another day

gilda l. ochoa is a professor of Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies at Pomona College. She is the author of three books, including Academic Profiling: Latinos, Asian Americans, and the Achievement Gap, which has received several awards. Most recently, she has turned to poetry to more personally convey her thoughts on identity, schooling, and immigration policies.

Contents

FOREWORD

Down the Rabbit Hole of Media Literacy by Decree

Sharyl Attkisson

Never before have there been so many well-organized, well-funded efforts to root out so-called fake news. To separate fact from fiction. To educate us on how to be media literate. To learn whatand whomto believe.

Third parties are stepping up on the public stage and generously offering to curate our information for us. Sometimes theyre pressed into service behind the scenes by advocacy groups or politicians.